Comment by shenedu

author here: Java part: 1. Java NIO's performance is amazing: event driven r/w bytes 2. maintain state machine when parsing HTTP from bytes buffer need many local variables, I get used to do it in a C style code.

Clojure: I like this language. It's brilliant. So I write a fast http server/client for it. Clojure is also write in JAVA, great interoperation